New building material used to make hurricane-resilient homes in Florida

Central Florida is booming with new construction of structures made mostly of wood frame or concrete block. But there is a new player in the market that is using a material you wouldn’t expect and rated to withstand a Category 5 hurricane. This new building material is made up of large panels, that have the look and feel of Styrofoam, called polystyrene. These panels are equipped with double galvanized steel mesh on the outside and then finished with 2 inches of concrete on either side. For Annette Rubin, the CEO and co-founder of Vero Building Systems, bringing this innovative technology to Florida all started during Hurricane Michael.

[@honors619]

Look at all these women 💗💗💗

[@costright]

The home that they showed in the video was not made from the same material .

[@greg7811]

The mexico beach home was icf, a different product than this

[@joshuafootman1593]

This product you are looking at is TRASH!!. Takes forever to build. A house is still being built off of orange ave near downtown

[@chodkowski01]

Stop building homes right on the ocean edge at the same ground level as the ocean. They lose to storm surge every time.